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Re: [OM] A video especially for AG :-)

Subject: Re: [OM] A video especially for AG :-)
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:53:03 -0800
Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
> People commenting at Youtube seem to be a little self-referred.
>
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0toBw68L5Y4>
>
> Reminded me of a well known piece of Spanish literature - will paste
> it 'though I foresee you should skip it, if not you'll really find
> yourself at the risk of increasing anxiety into unbearable realms.
>
> José Manrique 1440 - 1479
>   

Let the soul her slumbers break,
Let thought be quickened, and awake:
Awake to see
How soon this life is past and gone,
And death comes softly stealing on,
How silently!
Swiftly our pleasures glide away,
Our hearths recall the distant day
With many Sighs;
The moments that are speeding fast
We heed not, but the past - the past,
More highly prize.

Onward its course the present keeps,
Onward the constant current sweeps,
Till life is done.
And, did we judge of time aright,
The past and future in their flight
Would be as one.
Let no one fondly dream again,
That Hope and all her shadowy train
Will not decay;
Fleeting as were the dreams of old,
Remembered like a tale that's told,
They pass away.

Translation by Henry W. Longfellow, via

Moose
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